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BUCHAREST, Romania —January 11, 2019—A top European Union official on Friday warned Romania that rancorous political feuding could overshadow its presidency of the EU.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that domestically Romania needs “an atmosphere and spirit of consensus,” because “pointless polemics could cause multiple problems internally and externally.”

When presiding over the EU, a nation “should muffle or leave to one side the internal political problems,” he advised.